Re: the rights of a fetus

"A fetus does not have a right to be in the womb of any woman, but is there by her permission. This permission may be revoked by the woman at any time, because her womb is part of her body... There is no such thing as the right to live inside the body of another, i.e. there is no right to enslave... a woman is not a breeding pig owned by the state (or church). Even if a fetus were developed to the point of surviving as an independent being outside the pregnant woman's womb, the fetus would still not have the right to be inside the woman's womb.[2]"

This sure is a strange concept to me. As a mother and a
parent who claims the RIGHT to parent my child, I also
believe a child has the right to be parented by its
birth parents as opposed to, for example, in Germany
during the war, the government paid women to get pregnant
and then upon birth, the children became wards of the
government and were raised as cattle. The parent-child
bond is precious to me, and encouraging this relationship
creates compassionate human beings who value life. What
you seem to propose as politically correct would make
a person think that harvesting sperm and eggs in a clinical
setting would be preferable to a fetus parasitically
clinging to life in it's mother's womb? While I am not
for forcing women to carry children they desperately
do not want, I also feel there is a need to educate
and prevent pregnancies in situations where women
already know being mothers is not the choice they
wish to make at a given time. I also believe however
that a fetus is a lifeform and like any seed, for
example, the saying goes, "From the little acorn a
mighty oak grows", all of us began as a fetus and I have
yet to see anyone bypass that step on their way to becoming
a functional human. I lost my first pregnancy in my
first trimester, but I could feel the life within me and
I will admit to still occasionally grieving that child.
In my mind, I had two children. One did not survive.
I do not look at it as a flushable piece of tissue once
it is moving of its own volition. I think if a woman
engages in behavior that produces a child then it is
not forcing her to breed. It is her lack of awareness
and owning her choice to engage in sex that produced
what sex is supposed to produce...a child.

We have moved beyond so much ignorance and back alley
clinics that obliged a woman's wish to "disappear" a fetus.
Now, woman can drop off their unwanted infants at
police or fire stations. There is birth control AND
self control. I do not have all the answers and surely
ahead of us, we will face even more difficult choices
as our values evolve or devolve and people are forced
to deal with genocide and global starvation, and other
issues which are also destructive to different degrees.
These moral and ethical issues can be complex and there
will be more challenges to the simplistic notion of
life vs. death. The only common ground all of us
can claim IS at conception. Its the reality after
we begin sucking in air that determines if we want
to be part of humanity which nurtures or destroys life...

blessings,
Zoe

-_-


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